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2016
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Working Paper No. 237
Verlag: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Zusammenfassung: 
We propose a formal way to systematically study the differential effects of exogenous shocks in economic models with heterogeneous agents. Our setting applies to models that can be rephrased as "competition for market shares" in a broad sense. We show that even in presence of any number of arbitrarily heterogeneous agents, a single recursion relation characterizes the distributional pattern of equilibrium market shares and related measures. We identify the general conditions under which the market share function rotates, thereby either causing more or less equality among the agents. Our setting highlights the exceptional rule that power functions play for the distributional effects. We apply our method across economic models, including examples from monopolistic competition, discrete choice, partial and general equilibrium theory and contest theory.
Schlagwörter: 
Heterogeneity
Inequality
Monopolistic Competition
General Equilibrium
Contest Theory
JEL: 
D72
D82
C73
C62
C65
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